BETHNAL GREEN AND MR. HANSARD.
go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Permit me to correct a slight inaccuracy in Mr. AL Conway's kind letter about me published in your impression of September 4. It is quite true that I have three times, as he says, caught fever in the discharge of my ordinary parochial duties, but once only in Bethnal Green, twice in another London parish, before I was appointed to my present cure.
I hope you will not consider it out of place, if I take this op- portunity to express my desire that the sympathy and commenda- tion so kindly accorded to me by my many friends and by public opinion, daring my long and severe attack of scarlet-fever in Bethnal Green, should be extended to those scores of good clergy- men in the East End who, though not so constitutionally subject to fever as I am, amidst many difficulties and with scanty en- couragement, unobtrusively and contentedly devote their lives to the welfare of their parishioners, and whose sole reward is, I verily believe, that highest of all, which Englishmen prize so dearly, the consciousness at the last that they have done their duty.—I am, Sir, &c., Castle Hill, Kenilworth, September 13. SEPTIMUs HANSARD.
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